Pete's Log: email trouble and beyond

Entry #1064, Thu, July 19, 2001, 22:11 EST (Life in General)
(posted when I was 22 years old.)

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The OIT needs disbanding. Their primary and backup dns guys both went on vacation at the same time. hrmmm. In their absence, all dns entries for wizard (wizard.cse.nd.edu, cse.nd.edu, www.cse.nd.edu, etc ...) got deleted. Not only that, they disappeared twice more after the OIT supposedly fixed things. So mail was bouncing and such. But things seem to have returned to normal.

string of the day: "GET /default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN N%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090 %u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00 %u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" ... malloc's gotten 24 such requests today, and that represents a microcosm of what the real world is experiencing. The people responsible for this one certainly did a "good" job.

My bike seems to be functional again. There still remains an issue with the front brake, I hope to resolve that soon enough.

I'm totally drawing a blank as to what else happened this week.

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